Transcript of "What differences are there between women and men?"

4.
The body size of men is, on average,
10% larger than that of women.
Hofstede, Geert: Cultures and organizations, p. 137 and 462.

5.
As the bone structure of a
girl develops, she develops
broader hips and
narrower shoulders.
http://www.bolandathletics.com/4-5%20The%20difference%20between%20men%20and%20women.pdf
http://www.imagebase.net/People/imagebase5_03

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http://www.bolandathletics.com/4-5%20The%20difference%20between%20men%20and%20women.pdf
http://www.imagebase.net/People/imagebase17_14
As the bone structure of a
boy develops, he develops
broader shoulders
and narrower hips.

12.
Women tend to lie about
their age and their weight.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201105/why-men-lie-and-women-lie-down
http://www.imagebase.net/People/094-copy

13.
And women tend to lie to
make the person they are
talking to feel good.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-06/uoma-urf061002.php
http://www.imagebase.net/People/094-copy

14.
Men tend to lie
about their earnings
and their height.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201105/why-men-lie-and-women-lie-down
http://www.imagebase.net/People/Haiti-2013-148-copy

15.
And men tend to lie
to make themselves
look better.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-06/uoma-urf061002.php
http://www.imagebase.net/People/Haiti-2013-148-copy

17.
Women experience more emotions
than men do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsWWbxLmIS8

18.
Women tend to be a little better
than men on average at sensing
in the moment what the other
person is feeling.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6368484
Daniel Goleman

19.
http://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/1903/7216/1/umi-umd-4612.pdf
Women are rated on average as having
greater levels of social competence
than men.

20.
Board members observed that female directors
tended to seek the opinions of others
and tried to ensure that everyone in the
boardroom take part in the discussion.
https://hbr.org/2015/02/women-directors-change-how-boards-work

26.
Men Women
Men build wide
networks but not deep
relationships.
Women build deep
relationships with a few
people.
Sources
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsWWbxLmIS8
http://www.economist.com/node/21538162?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/contactsports

27.
Men get a lot more help from their
contacts than women do from their contacts.
Study by Lily Fang and Sterling Huang of 1,815 Wall Street analysts.
http://knowledge.insead.edu/women-in-business/your-rolodex-matters-but-by-how-much-depends-on-your-gender-3862
https://hbr.org/2015/02/why-network-more-is-bad-advice-for-women

45.
Years that women outlive men
http://www.prb.org/Articles/2011/biodemography.aspx

46.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-human-beast/201008/why-women-live-longer-men
Women live longer than men mostly
because they avoid a risky lifestyle.
Women avoid risk because they are
primary care-givers.

48.
4 reasons
1. Later age at marriage led to fewer pregnancies, reducing women's
risk of dying in childbirth.
2. Access to food and health care within households became more equal.
3. Greater migration and trade increased the spread of disease,
disadvantaging men.
4. Urban settings led to more competition for mates, causing increased
male risk-taking behavior.
Through most of history, women lived shorter lives
than men. That changed towards the 15th century.
http://www.prb.org/Articles/2011/biodemography.aspx

55.
When women were shown images of
unfamiliar people, eye-tracking technology
showed that they fixed upon the faces 10%
to 40% more times than men did.
http://blogs.hbr.org/daily-stat/2013/07/why-women-are-better-than-men.html